Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don’t respect. By default. Urgent.

meme not so funny

And yes, to refute some comments, this publication is being upvoted by bots. A single computer was needed, not “thousands of dollars” spent.

  • star_boar@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Regarding your edit, it can’t be that easy since spammers could just generate thousands of AI-written responses to questionnaires

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      1 year ago

      Right, an instance owner has to endorse another on an ongoing basis though. So for example, if an instance owner named Bob initially trusts a spammer based on a questionnaire, and then that guy immediately generates 100 bot accounts to start spamming with, then Bob can revoke the trust and the spammers instances get defederated.

      You also need to own a domain to run a Lemmy instance. The cheapest of which are only a few dollars a year, which isn’t much but it does put at least some floor on peoples ability to generate instances that’ll just get banned.

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        1 year ago

        Could it be a subdomain, though? What if a spammer started a “Lemmy instance as a service” on “legit.ml”, and started creating instances on “lemmy.u<number>.legit.ml”? What if some of the instances were actually legitimate, while thousands of others weren’t? What if… oh well, the rabbit hole goes deep on this one.